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I live in the middle of nowhere we have NO public transport, I run a small business and the petrol price rise has nearly put me out of business this year, no one is winning by high petrol prices, I need to take my children to school , my husband has a 50 mile round trip to work every day. At weekends we used to take the children out for a run round the Lakes stopping to spend money in small cafe's , maybe a small gift in a local shop and a trip to the local bakery all helping the local economy , now we stay home order our shopping from Tesco home delivery because we need to save the cash, the kids don't get the life we want for them all because our Government are greedy and don't understand the basic local economy. We work harder than we did a couple of years ago for a lower standard of living!

Posted by country dweller on
12 March 2012 at 12:14

fuel prices should be reduced for everyone, across the entire country. high fuel prices have the opposite effect to the economy, and the public purse. high fuel prices means everyone making cuts elsewhere in their budget, resulting in gains in fuel duty, but losses in VAT. More importantly, it destroys businesses by raising their transport costs - beyond what they can afford. No mainstream political party seems to understand this though.